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About Supernatural Season Six ...

Feb 21, 2010 22:31

About Supernatural Season Six ...

What follows is my purely speculative take on possibilities for season six of Supernatural. I have absolutely no inside track on the show; all I’m going to do here is weave the gossamer threads of my imagination with ideas spooled out of interviews with Eric Kripke during the last half-year to produce a nebulous ( Read more... )

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erinrua February 22 2010, 05:20:15 UTC

All I have to say is "Word." I absolutely ADORE how you've gathered links and quotes to so many pertinent older articles, and equally adore how you remind us of the extremely organic nature of SPN's evolution.

Brilliant, brilliant article. I love your thinky, journalistic mind. Thanks for sharing this.

Season Six? Bring it on! :-)

bardicvoice February 24 2010, 03:27:56 UTC

Thanks, Erin! Glad you liked it!

pinkphoenix1985 February 22 2010, 06:43:48 UTC

Mary- I agree with everything you've said.

Although, I have to admit that I do suffer a little from "tunnel vision" in that at the moment, I'm finding myself overwhelmed with the angel storyline and just wishing that it could be simple again.

If S6 is honestly a post-apocalypstic season focusing on the boys and their issues- I'll be so happy!

bardicvoice February 24 2010, 03:28:23 UTC

Thanks, dear! I hope we all are happy ...

... is LOVE anonymous February 22 2010, 07:00:25 UTC

Hi, pittiger here.

I enjoyed your article very much and it's exactly how I would love to see SPN continue.

You. said:
" It’s always been about the only ones who really mattered: very human brothers Sam and Dean being there for each other and for us, saving people and hunting things. "

Yep. For each other and for us.

SPN is LOVE. :)

Re: ... is LOVE bardicvoice February 24 2010, 03:29:09 UTC

Thanks! Glad you liked this ... *grin*

deangirl1 February 22 2010, 07:10:25 UTC

I agree with virtually everything you've said here. You've followed exactly the threads I have to reach the same conclusions. I've thoroughly enjoyed the ride to now - with the odd freak out... I like to think I've grown into my trust for Eric Kripke. I may have stumbled along the way, but I've always trusted him to bring it home for us. It's never entered my mind that he would let us down - he has always remained true to his vision of these two wonderful brothers. Which brings me to my one divergence from what you have written here. I've been a strong supporter of a season 6 and beyond storyline, trusting that Kripke could do it again - find new and interesting things to tell us about this journey. My faith in that journey without him is shaken to the core, however. The role being assigned to him and Bob Singer is about the same level of involvement that we saw from McG after the pilot - in other words, they will be names on the screen at the beginning of each episode - I firmly believe that neither of them will be involved in any ( ... )

bardicvoice February 24 2010, 03:34:10 UTC

I'm not twitched about Kripke's role being reduced. Mind, I'm waiting to see interviews with the man himself, but I would note that there is no single job description for "executive producer," and there are a lot of EPs who are MUCH more hands-on than McG has been with Supernatural. Being freed of showrunner responsibilities may actually give Kripke more opportunity to play in the fun things of writing and directing. Technically, Bob Singer has been an EP all along ... just a point.

I hope we all keep loving this show ... :)

chiiyo86 February 22 2010, 09:34:27 UTC

I’m going to start this off by saying that seasons five and six may be totally different from what I’m spinning here, and that would be just fine by me.

And now that's just what I like about you. :)

I agree with all your predictions. I think they make sense given what we've seen about this show over the seasons. I hope like you that the brothers won't say yes to the angels, or if they do, that it will be with a plan in mind and not because they're too tired to keep saying no.

I can relate with the fear that the show will loose its quality if it keeps going too long - God knows it happened to many shows. But I don't think there's any need to be too pessimistic yet. As you said, there are way to keep telling the show's story, since it's always been about the Winchesters and not about the apocalypse.

bardicvoice February 24 2010, 03:35:08 UTC

Thank you!

I always believe in looking on the bright side ... *grin*